No matter how strong and well-prepared your manuscript, you can guarantee that reviewer 2 will suggest revisions. In fact, the hashtag #reviewer 2 has gone viral – an indicator of curmedgeonly criticism (and fear of it) in the Twittersphere. In this session, a panel of mid-career researchers and Professors will draw on their experiences of […]
Take a well-deserved break from your PhD as we come towards the end of the academic year and join us for an informal picnic in the (hopefully) sunny weather. Bring your lunch, kick back and relax with fellow ADM PhD students. We'll be in the park area outside the Parkside Building. Please bring friends or […]
Alchemy is normally associated with the transmutation of matter. However, it also resonates closely with the many transformations that take place in research - from the ordinary to extraordinary, worthless to invaluable, abstract to tangible, tacit to explicit, accidental to creative. Moments of multiplicity and coincidence often mean different elements converge and diverge in an […]
On Wednesday 2ndOctober, 12-2 in C317, Andrew Hill (Financial Times), Jenny Robbins (Ruskinland) and Tim Selman (Wyre Community Land Trust) will be coming to talk about Ruskin and his legacy in the 21stcentury. Please come and join us! “Ruskinland”: how John Ruskin shapes our world John Ruskin shaped the world we inhabit, the way […]
“There is no way I could take an hour out of my busy schedule to do something nice, for a free coffee, to have a space to chat with people from different departments at different points in their studies. I have absolutely no time to maybe learn something or maybe share my knowledge and no […]
This first seminar of the new series sees the launch of our theme for the year. Iain Taylor will be offering an overview of the concept of materiality, locating it within a historical and critical context, highlighting the contested nature of the term, and offering examples of its growing importance in the fields of media […]
Fancy being mentored? Interested in mentoring another PhD student? Or perhaps intrigued about what mentoring is and want to find out more? Based on a growth-oriented, creative and collaborative ethos, the Arts, Design & Media PhD mentoring scheme pairs current and recently completed PhD students to enhance the doctoral experience and facilitate crossdisciplinary knowledge exchange. […]
You are warmly invited to join us for the following event on Wednesday 9 October 2019. Vidyan Ravinthiran is a poet and literary critic. Until recently he taught at the University of Birmingham, but will shortly be taking up a post at Harvard University in the US. His second poetry collection, The Million-Petalled Flower of Being […]
Dr. Oliver Carter (BCU) Sex 69: London, Denmark and Beyond In September 2018, Dr Oliver Carter was awarded British Academy funding to explore the transnational development of the British pornography business, focusing specifically on its relationship with Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Many histories of the adult entertainment business tend to identify Scandinavia as pioneers of hardcore […]
Our first Shut Up + Write session for this term run by the PGR Studio Research Assistants. Join us to get some writing done in a relaxed and purposeful space. Tea and tea will be provided. Feel free to bring lunch! No need to book. Just turn up.
